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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Poor credit union security',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			It looks like we have a very different concept of the word &quot;fortunate&quot;!
			I encourage you to use whatever system works best for you, but personally, I feel fortunate to be on Debian instead of Windows.
		</p>
		<p>
			Yeah, there are rewards in using Linux like you said, but it&apos;s also a new system and new paradigms to learn.
			I highly recommend trying Linux and other systems, I really do.
			Most people just use whatever system they learned to use first, stuck in a rut they never even try to escape.
			They complain about their system&apos;s problems (all systems have some sort of problem to complain about), but never even think to try something new.
			Broaden your experiences.
			Try new things.
			Then even if you decided to go back to Windows, it&apos;ll be an informed decision.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The multiple front ends for R makes me think it could be used as a library for other programs and scripts.
			I mean, the availability of several front ends hints that it has a pretty functional $a[API], which is exactly what you&apos;d need in order to use it as a library.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Yeah, it sounds like that website could use some cleaning up.
			I wouldn&apos;t know, as I installed a copy from my system&apos;s repository instead of that website, but I did see other students mention the confusing links.
			Sadly, many websites aren&apos;t really properly set up for ease of use.
			Personally, I find that sort of issue here on the university&apos;s own website quite frequently.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="credit">
	<h2>Credit union </h2>
	<p>
		I don&apos;t seem to have written about it, but about a week ago, I took a trip down to the credit union.
		I&apos;d started receiving credit card statements for the credit card they wanted me to get, but I hadn&apos;t even yet received the card, which I found strange.
		I asked them about it, and they told me to come back in a week if it still hadn&apos;t arrived.
		It&apos;s been seven or eight days now, so I prepared to go back.
	</p>
	<p>
		I decided to log into my account to be sure the card hadn&apos;t been used.
		I mean, maybe the card had been sent to the wrong address.
		It seemed like an unlikely possibility, but I wanted to be able to confirm that the card hadn&apos;t likely been stolen when I talked to a representative at the credit union.
		When I logged in, I found the site was no longer allowing me to skip the setting of &quot;security&quot; questions.
		And due to the stupid drop down menus the credit union used instead of textual input fields like every other &quot;security&quot; question systems I&apos;ve ever dealt with, it&apos;s impossible to choose actually-secure answers.
		I had no choice but to use the easily-guessable answers provided.
		I mean, if I had more warning this would happen, I could&apos;ve built a custom script that would have randomly selected answers from their hard-coded lists, but I had no time for that today.
	</p>
	<p>
		I talked to the representative about it, and they couldn&apos;t do anything about it.
		They couldn&apos;t even reset the questions so I could choose random answers when I have time.
		They claimed the presence of &qupt;security&quot; questions is by government mandate, too.
		They either have no idea what they&apos;re talking about, or the government really did mandate this.
		Either way, it&apos;s not likely I can get around this.
		My account can now be broken into by anyone that knows basic details about me that I don&apos;t try to keep secret, such as my favourite colour.
		Joy.
	</p>
	<p>
		I told the representative that my credit card hadn&apos;t arrived.
		They were the same representative I&apos;d talked to last week, so after reminding them of the situation, they seemed to remember.
		They said they&apos;d void my old card number just in case, and print me a card in-branch.
		Instead of printing a credit card, they printed a debit card.
		They&apos;d voided my debit card and printed me a new one!
		I got them to void and reprint the credit card too after realising their mistake, but the problems today seem to hint that perhaps this credit union is incompetent.
		At least the card issue, unlike the security issue, isn&apos;t causing me problems.
	</p>
</section>
END
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